Altamont senior Rakesh Goli has been selected as one of the 300 semifinalists out of the 1,839 students that applied for the Intel Science Talent Search com­petition.

Altamont senior Rakesh Goli is a semifinalist in a national science talent search. (Submitted photo)

Rakesh will receive a $1,000 scholarship and the school will also receive an award of $1,000.

Rakesh should learn if he is a finalist in the competi­tion today.

The Intel Science Talent Search is the nation's most prestigious pre-college sci­ence competition. Alumni of the competition hold more than 100 of the world's most coveted science and math honors, including seven Nobel Prizes and four National Medals of Science.

The program recognizes 300 students and their schools as semifinalists each year to compete for $1.25 million in awards. From that select pool, 40 student fi­nalists are then invited to Washington, D.C., in March to participate in final judging, display their work to the public, meet with not­able scientists and compete for the top award of $100,000.

Rakesh has been twice to the Intel International Sci­ence and Engineering Fair, the world's largest pre-col­lege science fair competi­tion, and is one of the two Alabama recipients of the 2011 Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement which honors America's top per­formers in Advanced Place­ment Program science and math courses.